Women’s Rights: ·suffrage, gain the right to vote · Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 · · Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul
· 19th Amendment- 1920
_Immigration · Issues for immigrants o different immigrant groups were treated differently, why? o Old Immigrants v. New Immigrants—what were the differences, why? o Nativists § motives? o Chinese Exclusion Act and the Gentlemen’s Agreement (with Japan) o Issues for Latino immigrants— § unfair pay § migrant work § Cesar Chavez, as civil rights leaders for Latinos
African-Americans’ Rights ·discrimination ·segregation ·Jim Crow Laws ·Plessy v. Ferguson (Supreme Court case) “Separate but Equal” Decision 1896 ·Brown v. Board of Education(Supreme Court case) 1954
· Civil Rights leaders & events
·Martin Luther King, Jr. ·Rosa Parks . Thurgood Marshall ·Montgomery Bus Boycott ·Emmett Till’s murder ·Little Rock 9 ·March on Washington ·strategies to force local, state, and federal governments to guarantee equal rights regardless of race: Methods of civil disobedience: oboycotts osit-ins o‘freedom rides’ omarches oregistering to vote ogetting arrested on purpose ·successes of the Civil Rights Movement: odesegregated schools oMarch on Washington oCivil Rights Act of 1964 oVoting Rights Act of 1965
Rise of Big Business ocapitalism - Definition Adam Laissez-Faire Smith’s Laws of Laissez -Faire Economics -Govt with little or NO regulations omonopolies/trusts oJohn D. Rockefeller-Standard Oil oAndrew Carnegie - US Steel odifferences in social classes - growth of a middle class "Gospel of Wealth" oSocial Darwinism olabor unions oIndustrialization orise of oil, steel, railroads omass production, increase in factories ourbanization §poverty in cities §settlement houses to help immigrants - Jane Addams §poor sanitation and housing
Progressives -Working for change -improving society omuckrakers - §Jacob Riis -housing §Ida Tarbell -trust busting §Upton Sinclair - meatpacking conditions & potentially poisonous meat products (not to mention disgusting) §Lincoln Steffens -corrupt city governments Florence Kelley -child labor & women’s working conditions Legislative Reforms - §laws to improve working conditions, consumer safety, child labor, end government corruption, improving voting practices - initiatives, referendum, recall elections, secret ballots
US Imperialism – Hawaii, Alaska? Spheres of Influence – China & US wanting Open Door Policy China, Japan, Spanish –American War – US acquired – Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico & Guantanamo Bay Naval Base – Cuba, US became protectorate of Cuba, Protectorate, annexation,
Panama Canal – Teddy Roosevelt’s Latin American policy – keep all European powers out of Western Hemisphere(Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine)
Militarism,
Alliances Imperialism
Nationalism
Assassination - Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip- Serbian Nationalist
Allied Powers- France, Gr. Britain & all her colonies, Russia until 1917 revolution, Italy,
US an Allied Power - after 1917 stopped being “neutral”,
Central Powers: Germany, Austria- Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Trenches & U-Boats, Propaganda, Lusitania(Br ship not American)
US Efforts in War & at Home – Liberty Bonds, Victory Gardens, Meatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays – giving up comforts for the war effort, Spanish Flu, Woodrow Wilson’s - Treaty of Versailles Only Germans to pay reparations! – German War Guilt – Germany lost colonies & land, League of Nations- US did not join the League – didn’t want to have to send troops out for conflicts nor did US want troops here if a conflict arose in US! Congress did not ratify Treaty of Versailles
Midterm Topic Guide Chart
US II - Midterm Review
· suffrage, gain the right to vote
· Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
· · Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul
· 19th Amendment- 1920_Immigration
· Issues for immigrants
o different immigrant groups were treated differently, why?
o Old Immigrants v. New Immigrants—what were the differences, why?
o Nativists
§ motives?
o Chinese Exclusion Act and the Gentlemen’s Agreement (with Japan)
o Issues for Latino immigrants—
§ unfair pay
§ migrant work
§ Cesar Chavez, as civil rights leaders for Latinos
· discrimination
· segregation
· Jim Crow Laws
· Plessy v. Ferguson (Supreme Court case)
“Separate but Equal” Decision 1896
· Brown v. Board of Education(Supreme Court case) 1954
· Civil Rights leaders & events
· Martin Luther King, Jr.· Rosa Parks
. Thurgood Marshall
· Montgomery Bus Boycott
· Emmett Till’s murder
· Little Rock 9
· March on Washington
· strategies to force local, state, and federal
governments to guarantee equal rights regardless of race:
Methods of civil disobedience:
o boycotts
o sit-ins
o ‘freedom rides’
o marches
o registering to vote
o getting arrested on purpose
· successes of the Civil Rights Movement:
o desegregated schools
o March on Washington
o Civil Rights Act of 1964
o Voting Rights Act of 1965
o capitalism - Definition Adam
Laissez-Faire
Smith’s Laws of Laissez -Faire Economics -Govt with little or NO regulations
o monopolies/trusts
o John D. Rockefeller-Standard Oil
o Andrew Carnegie - US Steel
o differences in social classes - growth of a middle class "Gospel of Wealth"
o Social Darwinism
o labor unions
o Industrialization
o rise of oil, steel, railroads
o mass production, increase in factories
o urbanization
§ poverty in cities
§ settlement houses to help immigrants - Jane Addams
§ poor sanitation and housing
o muckrakers -
§ Jacob Riis -housing
§ Ida Tarbell -trust busting
§ Upton Sinclair - meatpacking conditions & potentially poisonous meat products (not to mention disgusting)
§ Lincoln Steffens -corrupt city governments
Florence Kelley -child labor & women’s working conditions
Legislative Reforms -
§ laws to improve working conditions, consumer safety, child labor, end government corruption, improving voting practices - initiatives, referendum, recall elections, secret ballots
See your Progressive Reform Sheet
Spheres of Influence – China & US wanting Open Door Policy China, Japan,
Spanish –American War – US acquired – Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico & Guantanamo Bay Naval Base – Cuba, US became protectorate of Cuba, Protectorate, annexation,
Panama Canal – Teddy Roosevelt’s Latin American policy – keep all European powers out of Western Hemisphere(Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine)
Militarism,
AlliancesImperialism
Nationalism
Assassination - Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip- Serbian Nationalist
Allied Powers- France, Gr. Britain & all her colonies, Russia until 1917 revolution, Italy,
US an Allied Power - after 1917 stopped being “neutral”,
Central Powers: Germany, Austria- Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria,
Trenches & U-Boats, Propaganda, Lusitania(Br ship not American)
US Efforts in War & at Home – Liberty Bonds, Victory Gardens, Meatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays – giving up comforts for the war effort,
Spanish Flu,
Woodrow Wilson’s - Treaty of Versailles
Only Germans to pay reparations! – German War Guilt – Germany lost colonies & land,
League of Nations- US did not join the League – didn’t want to have to send troops out for conflicts nor did US want troops here if a conflict arose in US! Congress did not ratify Treaty of Versailles